Subject: vi keystrokes to move around?

From: [email-masked] (Tony Gonzalez)
Date: 11 Jan 1997 02:04:17 -0800

Is there any way to get pine to emulate vi like
keystrokes for moving around the index's?  i.e., "j" for
down "i" for up, etc.

Thanks

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From: Eric Tse <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 06:08:46 GMT

> keystrokes for moving around the index's?  i.e., "j" for

  I can't think of any easy way to do this.
  Modify the source code and re-compile, maybe?

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From: [email-masked] (Sven Guckes)
Date: 16 Jan 1997 17:15:19 GMT

[email-masked] (Tony Gonzalez):
> Is there any way to get pine to emulate vi like keystrokes for
> moving around the index's?  i.e., "j" for down "i" for up, etc.

This would require two things:
First, make it a mode editor, ie know about the difference whether a key is
meant to be a command or input to the text, and second, allow key binding.

Both these things are considered non-intuitive and thus is a contradiction
to pico being a "simple editor".  In short:  Forget it!

Why don't you just switch the editor over to vi?

Sven  [who prefers vim over vi]

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